I'm 16 in two months and a half and female, if that's of any importance. Since I was about 13 I've been having very clear bad dreams, always about a fictional person who is usually from a game/book/manga. For a long time, they would beat me up in some way and throughout the following day I would feel a dulled version of the pain I experienced, e.g. if my wrist was broken, it would ache throughout the day, if I was shoved off a tower, my whole body hurt all day. The characters who show up in my dreams are never frightening to me in any way while I am awake and usually they are my favourite character from their respective game/book/manga. Over the past year or so, however, these fictional characters have taken to raping me in my dreams. I will repeat, when I am awake these characters do not scare me in any way but in the dreams they are absolutely f*cking terrifying (please excuse the language). Recently I've had about five nightmares about this one male character where he has raped me at least once per dream, and once it was a gang rape. Sorry for repeating this so much, but please don't tell me things like 'stop reading the manga' because the characters don't scare me at all until they show up in my dreams. I'm asking if anyone knows why these dreams are occurring and why my body echoes the pain caused throughout the day, and any answers are welcome, because I've been to a counsellor and he didn't help me at all. Sorry for the incredibly long post, I just want to resolve these nightmares. Thank you very much for bothering to read : )